Chinese Miao food: spicy, colorful, delicious, and more!
The Miao are an ethnic minority, and admiring the glistening silver jewelry the women wear from head to toe, you may think they are rich. But the Miao lead quite a tough life in secluded mountainous areas of southern and southwestern China. Even in their holidays and ceremonies, food showed on a table doesn't look very luxurious. But the Miao have some special dishes that are different from those in most areas of China.
Colorful glutinous rice
Glutinous rice is the staple food of Miao culture. A unique colorful and delicious rice is prepared for guests during holidays. There are five distinct colors in the rice: blue, red, white, black, and yellow. The juices of different plants give the rice beautiful colors. The beautiful colors attract you to have a big bite of the sweet rice.
The colorful sticky rice is usually sent by the single women as a gift to their partners. They can put some specific things in the rice basket to tell the men if they like them or not. A bamboo hook indicates that the man should buy the girl an umbrella as a gift. The fork of a tree means their relationship is over. A piece of toon sprout indicates they will marry soon. A glutinous rice paste with the design of baby, dragon, and phoenix will be served for the bride and groom on their wedding day.
Oil-tea
A very common Miao beverage is “oil-tea.”Some Miao people like sipping it every day. Tea leaves are fried in a pan with ginger, salt, and oil. Then put into some water, and boil them together. The tea leaves are beaten into pieces with a mallet and the concoction is then boiled for a while longer. After the tea is filtered and blended together with peanuts, beans, corn, or glutinous rice, some garlic and peppers can be put.
Now a big cup of deep and rich tea is prepared for you to enjoy.
A chopstick is usually supplied together with oil-tea. Lay the chopstick onto your bowl if you don't need tea anymore. If not, tea will be given to you endlessly!
Sour soup
A special sour soup is served all year round. It's made of fermented rice, steamed radishes, and cabbage. People like to use this sour soup to cook fish, chicken or meat, and it gives their dishes a special sour flavor.
Spicy flavoring
In ancient times, it was very difficult for the Miao to get salt, so they used hot peppers to add flavor to their dishes and developed a taste for very spicy food. Today, minced and fried chili peppers are the main spices added into Miao dishes.
Chili peppers can be prepared in lots of ways. They can be fried or baked, then mixed together with ginger, garlic, wine or soy sauce to achieve different tastes. When put into a jar, the flavoring can be stored for long time.
Chicken and duck
The Miao like chicken and duck meat, and especially chicken or duck’s heart. The viscera are usually kept for the guests and elder people to show respect.
Wine
Wine has a long history among the Miao. Most Miao families can make wine at home.
A sweet wine made of glutinous rice and special fruit tastes good and helps digest food. Going to a Miao village, you will be welcomed by the local people with a whole wine service. As many as twelve places from the road to their village gate are designated as the sites for this service. You will be considered a hero if you can finish all wine in the 12 bowls! But no need to be upset if you can't. Just touch the bowl with your lips gently, and politely say “Dou She Mo,” which in the Miao language means “Thank you!” then you can go.
Visit the Miao villages during their holidays, and you can enjoy their exciting singing and dancing performances, along with their fascinating embroidery and silver ornaments like the unique silver earrings. And sure, you can taste various kinds of wine as well!
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